Tom Hanks still plays with children’s toys

The ‘Toy Story 3’ star – who is father to Colin, 32, Elizabeth, 28, Chester, 19, and 12-year-old Truman – played his own toys “out of existence” and so has now had to turn to those of his children.

Hanks – who voices the character of cowboy doll Woody in the animated Disney Pixar sequel - told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I play with toys all the time. I play with the little goofy things my kids still have like cars and planes and I hold them up and imagine the same stories I did when I was a kid.

“My own toys weren’t collectibles – they went through hard use so any toy I had was eventually pounded out of existence or they broke. They went the best way any toys can – they were played with out of existence.”

However, the 54-year-old actor also revealed he found it difficult to make friends as a child, something which has transferred to his adult life.

He said: “Since I moved around so much as a kid, I didn’t have an awful lot of friends. I don’t think it’s part of my make-up to completely open up.

“I can pretend to be very good friends with people then not have anything to do with them for 18 months.”